Genji monogatari

Quality:

The Tale of Genji - classic work of Japanese literature. This book is the 217^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 973^rd most popular book in Italian Wikipedia. Article “Genji monogatari” in Italian Wikipedia has 13.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 references and 8 sections.

This article has the best quality in Basque Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

Italian Wikipedia:

The 973^rd most popular in books in Italian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 217^th most popular in books.

In June 2026 the article “Genji monogatari” was edited by 1 authors in Italian Wikipedia and written by 11 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Genji monogatari”, its content was written by 102 registered users of Italian Wikipedia and edited by 2222 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Tale of Genji is on the 973^rd place in local ranking of books in Italian Wikipedia and on the 217^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 141 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 5290 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #3088 in July 2006
• Global: #319 in March 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #24623 in September 2008
• Global: #5659 in January 2024

There are 52 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Basque (eu) Genji Monogatari		88.1218
2	Catalan (ca) Genji Monogatari		81.9392
3	Esperanto (eo) Genĵi monogatari		78.6069
4	Japanese (ja) 源氏物語		69.2173
5	Greek (el) Η ιστορία του Γκέντζι		68.8647
6	Vietnamese (vi) Truyện kể Genji		67.2299
7	English (en) The Tale of Genji		62.2862
8	Portuguese (pt) Genji Monogatari		58.525
9	Polish (pl) Genji monogatari		54.3559
10	French (fr) Le Dit du Genji		50.9636

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 源氏物語		8 234 752
2	English (en) The Tale of Genji		5 972 064
3	Chinese (zh) 源氏物語		1 706 677
4	Spanish (es) Genji Monogatari		535 562
5	French (fr) Le Dit du Genji		451 144
6	Russian (ru) Повесть о Гэндзи		428 904
7	Vietnamese (vi) Truyện kể Genji		328 981
8	Italian (it) Genji monogatari		322 634
9	German (de) Genji Monogatari		226 613
10	Indonesian (id) Hikayat Genji		160 566

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Tale of Genji		21 967
2	Japanese (ja) 源氏物語		19 581
3	Chinese (zh) 源氏物語		4 892
4	Spanish (es) Genji Monogatari		1 911
5	French (fr) Le Dit du Genji		1 884
6	Russian (ru) Повесть о Гэндзи		1 870
7	Italian (it) Genji monogatari		1 355
8	German (de) Genji Monogatari		1 071
9	Vietnamese (vi) Truyện kể Genji		1 003
10	Portuguese (pt) Genji Monogatari		624

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Tale of Genji		506
2	Japanese (ja) 源氏物語		322
3	French (fr) Le Dit du Genji		165
4	German (de) Genji Monogatari		112
5	Italian (it) Genji monogatari		102
6	Chinese (zh) 源氏物語		91
7	Russian (ru) Повесть о Гэндзи		79
8	Vietnamese (vi) Truyện kể Genji		76
9	Spanish (es) Genji Monogatari		65
10	Dutch (nl) Het verhaal van Genji		43

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Azerbaijani (az) Gencinin hekayəsi		2
2	English (en) The Tale of Genji		2
3	Japanese (ja) 源氏物語		2
4	Bulgarian (bg) Сказание за Генджи		1
5	Catalan (ca) Genji Monogatari		1
6	Basque (eu) Genji Monogatari		1
7	Persian (fa) داستان گنجی		1
8	Italian (it) Genji monogatari		1
9	Arabic (ar) قصة غنجي		0
10	Belarusian (be) Аповесць пра Гэндзі		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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